I have watched many war movies, and although I have the urge to cry, I can still hold back the tears.
But there is a war film that has no room to hold back, and it is "Purple Sun"!
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"Purple Sun", as the last part of Feng Xiaoning's war trilogy, compared to "Red River Valley" and "Yellow River Love", "Purple Sun" is both affectionate and profound!
As a high-scoring anti-war film with a Douban score of 8.2, "Purple Sun" has no personal heroes, no guerrillas, no guns and bullets, no underground workers, and no thunder people's anti-Japanese drama plot: hand tearing devils, crotch hidden thunder...
There are no magnificent war scenes, some are just the background of the war, the survival status of the little people and the disasters brought by the war to mankind.
In the play, a Chinese farmer Yang Yufu (Fu Dalong), a Japanese girl Akiko (Maeda Zhihui), and a Russian female military officer Nadya (Anna Jenilarova) experience life and death tests and national feuds when three people with completely different life trajectories, cultural backgrounds, and political attitudes are tightly bound together because of the war.
In the endless forest, the hearts of the three people are constantly struggling, and human nature is constantly being tortured. From the initial suspicion, defense, hatred, misinterpretation, and final mutual acceptance, it profoundly shows the initial purity of human nature and the devastation brought by war!
Although there are many touching bridges in the play, it is this paragraph that finally makes the editor cry:
As a young girl with a pure heart, Akiba leaf is brainwashed by Japanese militarism, but is influenced by the various behaviors of Yang Yufu and Najia, and is also the most changed character in the play.
At the end of the film, Japan has surrendered, Akibaki watches her compatriots commit suicide or cannibalism, the kindness in her heart completely bursts out, she desperately tries to stop it, but what greets her is the cold gun of her compatriots.
This shot completely broke the hearts of the audience, and it made Yang Yufu and Najia completely angry, because in their hearts, this Japanese little girl had been tolerated, and she had no nationality and had treated her as a relative.
They can't stand Akiba's death, Nadya drives an armored car, Yang Yufu carries a submachine gun, charging at the Japanese fascists, they want to avenge Akiba!
Just like the "music box" that runs through the whole film, from the beginning it is in the hands of Yang Yufu cang, to the end it rolls down on a grassy field, the beautiful "music box" and the strong contrast between the war, all stimulate everyone who longs for peace.
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In order to make this film, director Feng Xiaoning took the only 5 million yuan of investment money and filmed scenes such as "tank battle", "grassland fire", "aircraft carrier" and so-called "big scene".
In particular, the "grand" tank battle, the film shows hundreds of Soviet Red Army tanks and the dying Japanese Kwantung Army engaged in a thrilling tank battle.
In the actual shooting process, Feng Xiaoning actually used only 8 tanks, and all of them were broken tanks that could do nothing but start.
And, if you choose to shoot these shots in the cool grasslands, the transportation costs of the tanks will be amazingly high. In order to save money, you can only suffer everyone.
The tank battle is in the wasteland of Inner Mongolia, when the temperature is as high as 40 ° C, the temperature inside the tank is at least 60 ° C, people stand outside, for a long time, there will be a pool of sweat under their feet, and the longest record for entering the tank without fainting is 10 minutes. All 8 tankers fainted, 2 fainted twice.
During the 3-day lease, he had every actor who made a gun in the plot shoot a close-up of the burst. After more than a month, the crew took a fake gun to Daxinganling to shoot the location, and the actors only shot a panoramic view of the point shot when shooting the gun.
When it came to post-production, Feng Xiaoning cut the close-up and the panorama together, and the real gun and the fake gun became the same gun, thus saving 30,000 yuan!
Not only that, but even the lead actor Fu Dalong worked part-time as a "labor force"!
Feng Xiaoning once revealed: Fu Dalong is on the scene, as long as he has time, he will always help the crew.
When digging trenches during the tank battle, we invited 8 migrant workers, plus me and Dalong a total of 10 people. It was too hot, halfway ran 5 migrant workers, the remaining 5 people, after digging the trench, both hands are bubbles.
What is more interesting is that Feng Xiaoning, a military enthusiast and collector of military products for decades, also bought his own materials, and then stayed up all night, using only a pair of pliers to "build" a realistic Soviet-made submachine gun.
You say that he is saving money, and Xiaobian wants to say that this is a pursuit and love!
Compared with the current big productions, thousands, even hundreds of millions, the investment of "Purple Sun" is simply incomparable, but the director puts more of a film on the film itself.
And director Feng Xiaoning also has this confidence. He spent ten years and wrote six books - "Meridian of War", "Beiyang Marine Division", "Great Air Battle", "Red River Valley", "Yellow River Love", "Purple Sun", which is his profound exploration of war and peace!
I look forward to director Feng Xiaoning's new creations and ideas, so that we can enjoy more in-depth films. After all, big scenes and big productions are easy to release water!
Finally, we specially found the music of the "music box" for everyone, remembering the history and not forgetting the shame, but we are more committed to peace!
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